TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2008//
TI  - "I'm Not Really Afraid of Osama Bin Laden!" Fear of Terrorism in Dutch Children
JO  - Journal of child and family studies
A1  - Muris, Peter
A1  - Mayer, Birgit
A1  - van Eijk, Sandra
A1  - van Dongen, Marit
SP  - 706
EP  - 713
VL  - 17
IS  - 5
N2  - We examined to what extent children in The Netherlands are affected by the threat of terrorism. For this purpose, a sample of school children living in Rotterdam or adjacent satellites ( N = 216) completed a fear survey that included a number of terrorism-related items, and were confronted with ambiguous vignettes to measure threat-related interpretation bias. The results demonstrated that although a number of terrorism-related items (i.e., bombing attacks, explosions in a bus or subway) listed high in a ranking of most intense childhood fears, very few children made terrorist-related interpretations of ambiguous situations.<p /> 
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SN  - 1062-1024
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10826-007-9185-7
ID  - ref1
ER  -